Governor Kathy Hochul is one weird duck

In any case, I can’t imagine a creepier way of promoting vaccines than to portray resistance to them as defiance of what God is currently saying within earshot. Every single vax-skeptic I know has compared public-health prohibitions and commands to false religious duties. Hochul is just saying it out loud.

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But then, Governor Hochul is always making things personal and weird. This week she also attended a business roundtable and talked up legal marijuana as the new industry that would save upstate New York. For some reason, upstate New York only ever gets offered the business of vice. After two decades of being teased about possible casinos, now there is the promise of pot.

“So count me in as an ally,” Hochul said — “someone who’s going to be there for you, who will fight for you to make sure that we do not lose out to any competition, whether it’s in the space of cannabis, where I believe there’s thousands and thousands of jobs and new industries to be created that were not even focused on.” With Hochul, a dank, hazy cloud rises over the Empire State. A cloud of hope! Where God is telling you to get the jab, and you aren’t going to believe how many jobs there are in the marijuana business. Because we can’t quite focus, for some reason.

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